Remote Senior Backend Engineer - High-Load Microservices

Playson; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Quarterly Bonuses

Unlimited Paid Vacation

Unlimited Paid Sick Leave

Flexible Schedule

Remote Work

Medical Insurance

Life Events Financial Support

Professional Development

International exposure

B2B contracts

Job summary

Playson, a leading iGaming platform, seeks a Senior Backend Developer to design, build, and optimise backend services in a high-load environment. You will focus on latency reduction, reliability, and scalable architectures while shipping production-grade code daily.

You will join a cross-functional team owning core platform components and contribute to tech transformations across the system, including on-call rotations and collaboration with product and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with Node.js/TypeScript and OOP languages.

Responsibilities

• Own core backend features in a cross-functional team and ship end-to-end in a distributed environment.
• Write production-grade code daily, focusing on high-load, low-latency systems.
• Ensure reliability and accuracy for financial-transaction services at scale.
• Review code and architecture to maintain high engineering standards.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support system availability.
• Collaborate with engineers, product, and stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Kafka

gRPC

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Testing

Production-ready software

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

MySQL

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

DynamoDB

MongoDB

Java

Python

Go

Job description

Playson, a leading iGaming platform, seeks a Senior Backend Developer to design, build, and optimise backend services in a high-load environment. You will focus on latency reduction, reliability, and scalable architectures while shipping production-grade code daily.

You will join a cross-functional team owning core platform components and contribute to tech transformations across the system, including on-call rotations and collaboration with product and engineering teams.